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"Hmm, Brother Huangfu, do you know this person? It seems that you are really well-connected in the United States......

Zhuang Rui was also stunned for a moment, he originally wanted Huang Fuyun to find a friend to inquire, but he didn't expect this buddy to know himself, it seems that he used to mix really well in the United States, you know, the fourth wife can call a friend, it is estimated that the net worth is more than 10 billion US dollars. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Fuyun smiled bitterly and said: "Ahem, I know him, but I guess he doesn't recognize me, you really found the right person, in the United States, there are only a few people who are worthy of Bonadette's true identity......"

Sure enough, as Zhuang Rui guessed, this person named Bonadette is really not an ordinary person.

After World War II, a new conglomerate emerged in California, called CaliforniaGroup, which included the Bank of America Group, the San Francisco Group, and the Los Angeles Group.

During the Second World War, the economic power of this group increased dramatically with the rapid development of California's arms industry, especially the growth rate of financial capital, which formed a large consortium with the Bank of America as the financial center.

Just 20 years later, in 1974, this consortium had assets of $167.1 billion, ranking third among the top ten conglomerates in the United States, and played a major role in the political and economic life of the United States.

Now more than 30 years have passed since the 70s of the last century, and the influence of this consortium has long been integrated into the United States and even every corner of the world, and the actual assets cannot be estimated at all, and Bonadette, who is the person behind the consortium, has been firmly holding the lifeblood of this large consortium since the end of the 80s of the last century, and has a very great influence in the United States.

You must know that the social form of the United States is at best said to be highly free, but it is not good to say, all the politics and diplomacy of the United States are controlled by those consortia, not to mention anything else, that is, the funds needed for the presidential campaign are also donated by these consortia.

Therefore, people like Bonadette are the real upper-class people in the United States, and their influence in certain circles is incomparable to that of the President of the United States, and the social resources they can use are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

"Brother Huangfu, how did you know him?"

After Zhuang Rui listened to Huang Fuyun's introduction, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, such a real tycoon is generally very low-key, as Huang Fuyun said, basically few people in the United States know Bonadette, if you want to say that the fourth wife can get to know this person, it is still said in the past, but with Huang Fuyun's identity, it is difficult to reach that circle.

Huang Fuyun laughed when he heard this, and said, "Where I used to work, I had some business ...... with him."

It turned out that this man named Bonadette came from a military family, and since the 19th century when the musket era, some people in his family held high positions in the United States, and participated in the mining of gold mines in California, accumulating a rich amount of original funds.

The Bonadette family participated in World War I and World War II throughout the whole process, and when the American ** team entered Berlin, the leader of the Bonadette family, that is, Bonadette's father, was one of the generals, and Huangfuyun's so-called business also originated from an incident at that time.

Although the U.S. ** team entered Berlin later than the Soviet Red Army in order to reduce its own casualties, the wealth plundered by the Nazis from all over the world still made the Americans make a windfall.

"We felt like we were entering a treasure trove of Arabian Nights, which is difficult to describe in words, revealing a illuminated chamber 23 meters wide and 45 meters long, with more than 7,000 marked bags, knee-high, 20 full yards, each row about 1 meter apart.

On the other side of the room are bundles of cash, each with the word "Melmer" printed on the label, apparently belonging to SS pseudonymous accounts, the first clues to the scope and complexity of the wealth plundered by the Nazis in Europe.

We opened the bag and included the belongings in the list: 8,198 gold ingots, 55 boxes of gold bricks (2 pieces each, each weighing 10 kilograms), hundreds of bags of gold utensils and articles, more than 1,300 bags of gold marks, gold francs and gold pounds, 711 bags of 20 dollars in gold coins, hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins from 15 other countries, hundreds of bags of foreign exchange banknotes, 9 bags of rare ancient gold coins, 2,380 bags and 1,300 boxes of Deutsche Mark cash.

The face value amounted to 2.76 billion, 20 silver ingots weighing 200 kilograms each, 40 silver bars, 63 boxes and 55 silver plates, 1 bag of white gold (containing 6 white gold ingots), and 110 bags of diamonds and jewels looted from different countries.

In other tunnels, we also found a large number of precious works of art from museums and private individuals in various European countries: paintings, prints, pencil drawings, engravings, antique clocks, philatelic albums, and these treasures also exposed the cruelty of the Nazis, among the gold objects, including several bags of gold teeth pulled from the mouths of prisoners in extermination camps......"

The discovery of this treasure, known to later generations as the Merks Treasure, was hidden by the Nazis in a plan to transport the wealth plundered during the war to other countries.

At the beginning of 1946, the monetary gold (gold bricks, bars, and coins) in Mercks' treasure was handed over to the Allied War Reparations Committee, and finally to the Gold Recovery Committee of the United States, Britain and France, which was responsible for returning the gold to the central banks of the victim countries as soon as possible.

In addition to this treasure, another treasure of similar size was the gold plundered by the Ustasha regime in Croatia, but this gold was never found.

There are indications that they were secretly transported out of Europe by the Vatican and the CIA, and how much of this treasure remained in the Vatican remains a mystery, with several smaller Nazi treasures found in the Austrian Alps.

In addition to the Merx treasure, the rest of the treasures, in the end, have become missing, many treasures disappeared from people's eyes for no reason, except for some people with a heart, many people have forgotten the existence of these treasures with the passage of time.

At the beginning of 2003, some European victims of World War II suddenly raised the issue of Nazi treasures at that time, and attracted the attention of relevant organizations.

There is much evidence that not only was part of Mercks' treasure hidden by Bonadette's father, but also some small Nazi treasures that were later excavated were secretly transported out of Europe by Bonadette's father, and of course, he did not hand them over to the state.

The revelation of this incident caused an uproar in the United States and European countries, and several countries that had been devastated by World War II united to demand that the current Bonadette return the gold, gold bars, gold coins and other treasures that were secretly hidden at that time, and sent a joint legal team.

In addition to the acquittal of the billionaire football star who killed his wife, Mr. Bonadette also spent a lot of money to hire hundreds of lawyers, and defeated the small national lawyers' alliance.

And the reason why Huang Fuyun knew about this matter was because he was one of the hundred lawyers at that time, and only then did he know about Bonadette, of course, this case was not tried publicly, until after the verdict was announced, there were still very few people who knew Bonadette.

After Zhuang Rui heard this bizarre story, he was a little curious, and asked: "Brother Huangfu, you have been in contact with that case, how much treasure do you estimate that old Bonadette stole from Germany at that time?"

Huang Fuyun groaned, as if thinking about the case back then, and said after a while: "According to the figures put forward by those claimants, this wealth was more than hundreds of billions of dollars at that time, and if it is put now, there will be at least trillions, which is immeasurable......"

Not to mention the wealth represented by hundreds of billions of dollars in the forties and fifties of the last century, take China's multimillionaires in the eighties as an example, the multimillionaires at that time are not inferior to those who are now in the top few of the Forbes rich list, but think about how much this wealth is.

"Damn, this consortium has been accumulated with the wealth of half a European, no wonder it has developed so fast......"

Zhuang Rui now understands why such an emerging force can compete with those old forces in the United States in just a few decades, and with those Nazi gold as capital, I am afraid it is difficult to develop slowly.

After Huang Fuyun explained to Zhuang Rui, he asked a little strangely: "By the way, Zhuang Rui, you haven't told me yet, how did you get this person's business card?" Let me tell you, this person doesn't look famous, but to pick up the real power, Bill Gates is far worse than him......

Huang Fuyun's meaning Zhuang Rui understands, in this world, the most famous person may not necessarily be the richest person, Bill Gates is famous, but the strength of many old brands is far from being compared with these financial upstarts who have only risen in the past twenty or thirty years.